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Most common pleural tumors are metastatic from the thorax or elsewhere (often adenocarcinomas). Primary pleural tumors are rare – two most common are malignant mesothelioma (almost uniformly fatal) and solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (mostly curable with resection).
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Ghosh, S. (2021). Tumors of the Pleura. In: Handbook of Imaging in Pulmonary Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68165-4_14
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